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African officials close out three-week training term at LOGODI


Friday, July 6, 2018


WANJU – The 14 officials from Cameroon, Cote d’Ivoire, DR Congo, Senegal, and Uganda have completed their three weeks of lectures and study and site visits with a closing ceremony today at LOGODI.

This year marked the second stage of the tripart program sponsored by KOICA and carried out by LOGODI, with the first having taken place last year. So far, 16 countries have been part of the “Capacity Building Program for Local Administration (Africa).”

The participants in this year of the program end their term of training with conclusive action plans that correspond to the major tasks identified in the preceding years, and are now prepared to return to their countries to put them into practice. The action plans cover a range of areas from good governance to development strategy and target key objectives for organizational change.

During their time in Wanju, the participants further had the opportunity for one-on-one exchange with the 28 Korean local government officials in LOGODI’s 3rd Global Leaders Program, at a talk on sustainable agricultural development policy and subsequent trip to the Rural Development Administration.

LOGODI President Park Byungho presented each of the African heads, directors, officers, and others from central and local governments with certificates for their successful completion of the program. In his remarks to the outgoing alumni, he shared hopes that the experiences acquired in Korea would contribute to the advancement of local government in the five countries across West, Central, and East Africa.

Mr. Jean Jacques Yapo, Deputy Director of the Decentralized Cooperation Division at the Ministry of Home Affairs and Security in Cote d’Ivoire, responded on behalf of his peers, thanking the Korean Government, instructors, and staff for their support during their time away from home. He also expressed their admiration for the “Korean model,” which they will benchmark and aspire to implement according to the needs of their countries.

The participants hoped for further training for other officials in their countries and agreed to stay in close contact with LOGODI moving forward.